The Revolt of Sheikh Bedreddin: The Ottoman Response to a Social Threat

1416 CE · Rumeli / Anadolu · political

Sheikh Bedreddin, an Ottoman judge and Sufi mystic, launched a revolt with a teaching of "equality of property and unity of religion"; his followers were drawn from the Turkish, Greek and Jewish populations alike.

Mehmed Çelebi suppressed the revolt and had Bedreddin executed. The movement displays at once both the Ottoman discourse of social equality and the pluralistic structure of the empire.

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Sheikh Bedreddin, an Ottoman judge and Sufi mystic, launched a revolt with a teaching of "equality of property and unity of religion"; his followers were drawn from the Turkish, Greek and Jewish populations alike.
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1416 CE
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